London: Just two days before her death, Queen Elizabeth II had appointed Liz Truss as Britain’s new Prime Minister after the resignation of Boris Johnson.
Former Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, 47, was seen in an official photograph shaking hands with the monarch to accept her offer to form a new government and become the 15th Prime Minister of her 70-year reign.
The symbolic ceremony took place at the sovereign’s remote Balmoral retreat in the Scottish Highlands, as the queen, 96, was deemed unfit to return to London due to ill health.
“The queen received in audience the right honourable Elizabeth Truss MP today and requested her to form a new administration,” Buckingham Palace had said in a statement on Monday.
Normally, the outgoing and incoming Prime Minister meet the queen in quick succession at Buckingham Palace in central London.
